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S. P. OARRIGK.

SHOE UPPER.

No. 412,873. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL P. OARRIOK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOGEORGE H. CLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

SHOE-UPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,873, dated October15, 1889.

Application filed March 26, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL P. OARRICK, of Boston, county of Suffolk,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Boots or Shoes,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawingsrepresentinglike parts.

Shoes having the sides or quarters cut or IO formed in one large pieceslitted to receive a small gore or auxiliary piece have been made; butthe gore or auxiliary piece has been inserted at the top of the quarter,at the heel portion, so that one of the lines of stitching employed tosecure the said piece was directly above or in line with the back of theheel in the place usually occupied by the heel-seam in instances wherethe quarter is formed of two like halves secured together at the heel.

In accordance with this invention the quarter or upper of the shoe isformed, essentially, in one piece having an angular slit at the top, onepart of which, when the quarter is properly shaped, forms a part of thetop of one of the sides and one side of the opening in the other side,and the other part of which forms the opposite side of said-opening andthe bottorn thereof. The gore or auxiliary piece is shaped to fill theopening presented by the slit when the quarter is shaped or fashioned.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a shoe embodying this invention; Fig.2, a plan view of the quarter shaped and slit-ted in accord ance withthis invention previous to being clamped or fashioned, it representingin dotted lines the position or location of the slit of the old form;and Fig. 3, a detail of the gore or auxiliary piece.

The shoe herein described comprises the vamp a, sole a, heel a and aquarter Z2, and, as shown, represents a laced boot or shoe. The quarter(see Fig. 2) consists, essentially, of one large piece suitably shapedand having at the top an angular slit or two slits, as 45 2 3, oneforming a continuation of the other.

The slit 2, when the quarter is properly shaped, forms a part of the topof one side of the quarter, and also one of the vertical sides SerialNo. 304,850. (No model.)

or edges of the opening, which is filled with a gore or supplementalpiece 0. The slit 3 forms the opposite vertical side or edge of the saidopening to be filled by the piece 0, and also the lower side or edge ofthe said opening. These three sides or edges are represented in Fig. 1at 6 7 8, respectively. The gore or piece 0 is shaped to fill the saidopening, its side or edge 0' being secured to the side or edge 7, itsside or edge 0 being secured to the side or edge 8, and its side or edge0 being secured to the side or edge 6. The slit 2 extends from the edgeof the quarter thereinto at an angle, and the slit 3 forms acontinuation of the slit 2, but is extended at a different angle andterminates at one I side of or some distance from the line usuallyoccupied by a heel-seam.

In Fig. 2 the dotted line (Z represents the slit as it has heretoforebeen formed, and with the slit so located the line of stitching unitingthe side or edge 7 of the quarter to the side or edge 0 of the gorecomes directly above the heel, or on the line usually occupied by theheel-seam in a two-part quarter composed of like sides. The objection tothe formation of this scam at this point has heretofore been explained.

I claim The boot or shoe quarter or upper herein described, consistingof the piece I], having the slit 2 at the top, and the slit 3, outparal- 8o lel with the back line of the quarter, leading from andforming a continuation of the slit 2, to thereby obviate a rearheel-seam, and the gore or auxiliary piece 0, shaped to fill the openingformed by the slits 2 3 when the 8 5 piece 17 is crimped or made toassume proper shape, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sub- 0 scribing witnesses.

SAMUEL P. OARRIOK. \Vitnesses:

J AS. I-I. CHURCHILL, B. DEWAR.

